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A survey on blockchain-based platforms for IoT use-cases

Part of: Distributed Ledger Technologies: Papers Arising from Three Australian Symposia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 May 2020

Mohammad Jabed Morshed Chowdhury ,
Md Sadek Ferdous Open the ORCID record for Md Sadek Ferdous [Opens in a new window] ,
Kamanashis Biswas Open the ORCID record for Kamanashis Biswas [Opens in a new window] ,
Niaz Chowdhury  and
Vallipuram Muthukkumarasamy
Mohammad Jabed Morshed Chowdhury
Affiliation:
La Trobe University, VIC, Australia e-mail: m.chowdhury@latrobe.edu.au
Md Sadek Ferdous
Affiliation:
Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet, Bangladesh e-mail: sadek-cse@sust.edu Imperial College London, London, UK e-mail: s.ferdous@imperial.ac.uk
Kamanashis Biswas
Affiliation:
Australian Catholic University, NSW, Australia e-mail: kamanashis.biswas@acu.edu.au
Niaz Chowdhury
Affiliation:
Open University, Milton Keynes, UK e-mail: niaz.chowdhury@open.ac.uk
Vallipuram Muthukkumarasamy
Affiliation:
Griffith University, QLD, Australia e-mail: v.muthu@griffith.edu.au
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Abstract

The Internet of Things (IoT) has recently emerged as an innovative technology capable of empowering various areas such as healthcare, agriculture, smart cities, smart homes and supply chain with real-time and state-of-the-art sensing capabilities. Due to the underlying potential of this technology, it already saw exponential growth in a wide variety of use-cases in multiple application domains. As researchers around the globe continue to investigate its aptitudes, a collective agreement is that to get the best out of this technology and to harness its full potential, IoT needs to sit upon a flexible network architecture with strong support for security, privacy and trust. On the other hand, blockchain (BC) technology has recently come into prominence as a breakthrough technology with the potential to deliver some valuable properties such as resiliency, support for integrity, anonymity, decentralization and autonomous control. Several BC platforms are proposed that may be suitable for different use-cases, including IoT applications. In such, the possibility to integrate the IoT and BC technology is seen as a potential solution to address some crucial issues. However, to achieve this, there must be a clear understanding of the requirements of different IoT applications and the suitability of a BC platform for a particular application satisfying its underlying requirements. This paper aims to achieve this goal by describing an evaluation framework which can be utilized to select a suitable BC platform for a given IoT application.

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The Knowledge Engineering Review , Volume 35 , 2020 , e19
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© The Author(s) 2020. Published by Cambridge University Press

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